Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-14


have to tell you to-day that the Christ OF
all sympathy presents Himself.
IS THERE ANYBODY
in this ho6se that can get along without
sympathy? / do not think would live
a day without it. And yet there are u
great many who seem to get along without
any divine sympathy. Their fortune in
the counting-room, or in the store, or in
the insurance company, takes wings and
flies away. They button up q pennlless
pocket. They sit down in penury where
once they had affiuence, and yet there is
no Jesus to stand by them and say: ''Oh,
man, there are treasures that never
fail, in banks that never break !!
will take care Of you. |
you shall never want" They have no
such divine Savior to say that to them. l
do not know how they get along. Death
comes to the nursery. One voice less in
the household. One less fountain of joy
and laughter. Two less to be busy all
day. Two feet less to bound through the
hall. Shadow after shadow following
through that household, yet no Jesus to
stand there and say: 81 am the shep-
herd. That lamb is not lost. | took it
of the cold mountain. All's well" Oh,
can you tell me the mystery? Can you
solve it? Tell ME how it is that men and
women with aches, and pains, and sor-
rows, and losses, and exasperations, and
bereavements, can get along without SYM
pathing Christ? / cannot understand it.
But l come here to say this morn
ing that if you really want di-
vine sympathy you can have 1t.
There are two or three passage of Scripture
that throb which pity and kindness and
love. Cast thy burden OH the Lord and
He will sustain three" Come unto Me
all We who are weary and heavy laden and
will give You rest" Oh, there are green
pastures where the Heavenly Shepherd
leads the sick and wounded Of the flock
When all the other trees of the orchard
fail, God has one tree Of fruit for His dear
children. Though the organ walls out its
requiem, there comes afterward a song, q
chant, an anthem, a battle-march, n corona
tiOn, victory. DO you not want the
sympathy of Jesus? | offer this morning
to every man and woman in this house;
You need Him. oh, hou much you need
Him!
There was
CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY
wounded unto death While lying there
on the field he heard at great distance of
some one crying out in great pain: ''Oh,
my Godm and he said to himself: IL am
dying, but l think, perhaps, could help
the man. Although can't walk I'll just
roll over to where he is" So he rolled
over in his own blood, and rolled over the
bodies of the slain, and rolled on until he
came to where the other man was dying,
and put, as it were, his wound against
that wound, and his sorrow against that
sorrow, and helped to alleviate it. And
so it seems to me that Jesus Christ hears
the groan OF our sorrow, the groan of our
poverty, the groan OF our wretchedness,
and comes To the relief He comes rolling
over sin and sorrow to the place where we
lie on the battlefield, and He puts over us
the arm of his everlasting love; and | see
that arm and hand are wounded; and as
He puts that arm over us | can hear Him
saw: II have loved thee with an ever
lasting love" Oh that you might feel this
morning the power and coincidence of a
sympathizing Jesus!
Farther, | remark
THE LAST GREAT INsTALLMENT
paid for our redemption was the demise Of
Christ. The world has seen many dark
days About fifteen summers ago there
was very dark day when the sun was
eclipsed The fowl at monday went to
their perch, and we felt 4 gloom rs we
looked ut the astronomical wonder. Ii
was day in London when the plague
was ut its height, and the dead with un-
covered faces were taken in open carts and
dumped in the trenches. 1t was 4 dark
day when the earth opened and Lisbon
sank; but the darkest day since the crea.
tion of the world was the day when the
of Calvary was enacted. IL was
about noon when the curtain began to be
drawn. 1t was not the coming on of
night that soothes and refreshes; it was the
swinging of great gloom al around the
heavens. God hung it, As when there is
a dead one in the house you bow the shut
tiers or turn the lattice, 80 God in the after
noon shut the windows of the world. As
it is appropriate to throw black pail upon
the coffin as it passes along, so IL was APP
that everything should he sombre
that day as the great hearse OF the earth
rolled on, bearing the corpse of the King
MANS LAST HOURS
are ordinarily kept sacred. However you
may have hated or caricatured man,
when you hear he is dying silence puts its
hand on your lips, and you would have a
loathing for man who could stand by
death-bed making faces and scOtfing. But
Christ in his last hour cannot be left alone
What pursuing him yet after so long
pursuit. You have been drinking his
tears, do You want to drink his blood =?
They came up closely, 30 that, notwlth-
standing the darkness, they can glut their
revenge with the contortions Of his cOun-
tenance. They examine his feet. They
want to feel for themselves whether those
feet are really spiked. Tney put out their
hands and touch the spikes, and bring
them back wet with blood, and wipe them
on their garments Women stand there
and weep, but can do no good. 1t is
no PLACE FOR TENDER-HEARTEp WOMEN.
It wants heart that crime has turned into
granite. The waves of mans hatred and
of hell's vengeance dash up against the
mangled feet, aud the hands Of sin and
pain and torture clutch for his holy heart
Had he not been thoroughly fastened to
the cross they would have torn Him down
and trampled him with both feet. How
the cavalry horses arched their necks, and
champed their bits, and reared and snuffed
at the blood. Had Roman officer called
ont for light his voice would not have
been heard in the tumult; but louder than
the clash Of the spears, and the wailing OF
womanhood, and the neighing Of the
chargers, and the believing OF the cruci-
fiers, there comes q voice crashing through,
loud, clear, overwhelming, terrific. 1t is
the groan Of the dying Son Of God! Look!
What a scene! Look, oh world, at what
you have donel lift the covering from
the maltreated Christ to let You count the
wounds and estimate the cost, Oh, when
the nails went through Christ's right hand
and Christ's left hand-that bought both
your hands with all their power TO work,
and lift, and write. When the nail went
through Christ's right foot and Christ's
left foot-that bought your feet, with all